Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-29

THE FIRST LEssoNs-rHE PRESCRIBED COURSES OF
STUDY.
The High School girl, when she goes home now.
carries with her a recipe book. During the past
fortnight many OF these girls have astonished their
mothers by going into the kitchen, putting on
| aprons, rolling up their sleeves and making
delicious biscuit, toothsome cookies and snowy
| bread. That Is as far as they have gone. Next
week they VIII start In on soups, and every week to
| come they VIII add new dish or q
| new branch OF cooking to the list of their
| accomplishments. The boys don't cook, but
| they come home with blister on their
hands, not made by base ball, but honestly
| earned. In working with hammer chisel or saw
| The manual training and cooking schools In the
white scnoolS are now In full operation
| THE SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED THIS YEAR
Manual training, begun in rather small way in
| basement room OF the High School last year, has
spread out this year. and several hundred boys and
girls are dSciplning their hands as well their
minds similar schools viii soon be opened for the
colored children. The 5000 appropriated for the
purpose this year has not permitted the establish
ment OF such school In every school division. One
| the High School pupils and for the eighth
grade pupils in the first and second
school DIVISIONS Another in the Peabody
annex building on 9Th street, Capitol Hill. pro-
yides for the pupils In the third school division
Another school has been located in the basement
OF the Jefferson building, where the boys OF the
| fourth school division are learning to work with
| carpenters tools. The street and Capitol Hill
schools have both manual training department
Tor DoyS ana cooking department for girls. The
$1,000 has been expended In providing "plant'
FOR these schools, the pay of the teachers
From the special appropriation for the man.
ual training and cooking schools expected
next year. 1t Is hoped TO increase the number OF
the SCHOOLS, so that there will be one in every
school division. Superintendent Powell who has
had much OF his time occupied during the summer
| and fall establishing these schools. thinks they
are now established so that they will soon demon
strate to the community the advantages OF manual
| training. To STAR reporter who accompanied
him on trip OF inspection through these schools
the other day Mr.. Powell said that this was the
only city In which manual training had been es-
forming part OF the course OF Instruction. In
Boston the manual training schools were more
centralized.
TIE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS.
The principal school at present, the one where
the greatest number OF pupils are taught, is the
one located in the building on o street. opposite
The High School, which was rented for the purpose
Thls building, which was private house. has a
long back building two stories in height, well
adapted TO shop purposes In the main building
the two frst-fl0or rooms are used as a cooking
school. Upstairs the rooms in the main part OF
the house are used for designing rooms and wash
rooms. The long room In the back building Is
titted up as a carpenter shop with benches. on
the ground floor In this back building is now being
ntteu up the metal-working department.
IN THE COOKING SCHOOL,
When THE STAR reporter visited the school the
other day class OF fifteen girls from the High
School, all with aprons and notebooks, were
seated around long table down stairs watching
one OF their number knead lump OF dough- while
Miss Jacobs, the teacher, stood at the end OF the
table, gtvi directions pointing out defects in
the manner in which the dough was kneaded.
Zach girl IN turn tried her hand at kneading. 1t
was bread day. Miss Jacobs has fifteen girls at
time 10 teach. and each girl in the High school
who wants instruction in cooking gets one lesson
IN week, or about thirtyI1ye lessons In the year.
The course Is arranged 50 TO give the girl in the
course OF the year lair knowledge OF cookery
both IRON the theoretical and the practical point
OF ylew The teacher at each lesson, gives talk
cooking, explaining some mystery or the arr, and
gives practical instruction as 10 how 10 prepare
some article or food. The first lesson begins with
the management OF the nre and oven. The chem
lstry or cooking. too, Is explained. The girls are
taught not only how much yeast powder 10 use,
but are told why IL is used, and shown the chemi-
cal changes produced Dy the yeast powder. The
school has Il fully-equipped kitchen, with range
hot and cold water and big cupboard containing
complete sets or cooking utensils. Each class Is
eNpecied TO put the kitchen In perfect order al the
conclusion OF the days lesson, SO that TIE next
class coming In lind, the tins all shining brightly
and rything as neat and clean as though the
Kitchen had never be used. The girls show
much interest ana enthusiasm In every part OF the
Worn except that OF washing dishes. They are
expected 10 practice what Is taught IN the school
at home. so far the course contemplates only one
year Instruction. In case facilities are provided
Nr. Powell thinks IL NAV be d, .sirable Ia add
another year TO the course, which would embrace
Instruction In general housekeeping.
The cooking course as at present lid out is
described In the course OF study prepared by Mr..
Powell and soon To be published, as follows: The
object OF the course is TO give the pupils instruc
ZION in plain cooking ana In housekeeping so far as
1t Is dependent upon the Kitchen. In addition to
recipes Tor ordinary dishes and making and cook
ln< The same In the school, notes are given upon
the proper way OF mixing ingredients, and upon
the best method or arranging and preserving pro-
visions. AS much OF the chemistry OF food is
taught as Is Necessary for Intelligent cooking. Two
hours week throughout the year.
THE CARPENTER SHOP.
Walking upstairs from the cooking school a
scene OF a different character but equally as
busy, was presented. In the long shop, grouped
about the carpenters benches, were boys with
working aprons on. some adjusting tools some
squirting along the edge or a block or board to
See whether 1t was even. some saving chiseIin1
or boring, Others proving their work with square
The instructors In this school are MessrS. CHAM
berain, McNabb, and Emory, graduates or the
worcester Polytechnic Institute. They were
aproned like the boys and were busy among
hold saw or that one how to drive plane or
strike blow with hammer. In this school the
boys In the first year at the High School and the
eighthgrade boys the first and second divisions
are taught. They begin with the simpler tools
learn 10 saw or chisel TO line, TO plane and TO
bore with brace and bit. The blocks with holes
bored through them or with champered edges rep
resenting the first work OF the pupils have been
preserved each properly labeled. as, with the work
turned out afterward, they constitute recori OF
the progress OF the pupils. From these first exv-
cLses the pupils proceed 10 work OF construction.
drawn by themselves. The changes made
In the course in drawing In the public
schools have been In the direction OF Industrial
drawing. At present the course mapped out for
instruction In woodworking covers only one year.
In case another year Is added to the woodworking
the extended course will cover woOd-turnng deco.
ratiye work, carving, &C.
METAL-wORKING
The second year, according to the course as at
present mapped, the boys go from the carpenters
bench 10 the forge and furnace, taking a year of
instruction In Woodworking. The lower floor OF
the rear building OF the O-street school Is now be-
ing ntted up as netal-workers' shop Skating Is
being 2dJustxd, and an engine furnace forge5.
and an equipment for moulding and forging
Will soon be introduced. There will be SIX forces
Already class OF high School boys, who went
through the woodworking course last year, is
ready Tor instructions in metallurgy Mr. Powell
SAYS III Is proposed 10 teach them all about iron
ana steel and how they are handled They will
learn, 700, the management OF the engine boiler
ana furnaces and the use OF the tools.
The course In manual training as written down
In the course OF study 10 be published soon is as
follows: - 80
FIRST YEAR
Bench work-The correct method OF using planes
handsaws, ehisels, gouges, brace and BIT hammer.
gauge, and other tools In the working OF different
Kinds OF wood; the laying out OF work with knife
ana pencil. using try-SQuare bevel, and diyiders
and working from drawings executed by the pupii
himself: the making or plain and OF NOR, COM
pick mathematician Joints doyetai ltno and
plain cabinet making; the making or articies M
practical utility for the schools and shOps. the
putting together OF work with bradS nails Screws
and glue the care and sharpening OF edged tools
The use OF circular saws. Two hours a weeE
other materials used in the shop showing where
and in what condition each is found and 70 mr.,